hollywood melon man

Chapter 88 Sneak Attacker vs. Black Lightning

At Warner Studios in Los Angeles, Cheng Long met the young director Gilbert.

He is indeed very young, but even according to Eastern aesthetics, little Gilbert can be called a handsome boy.

Such a handsome guy did not want to be a star, but became a director. Miraculously, he made some achievements, which surprised Cheng Long.

Facing the kung fu superstar he was familiar with in his previous life, little Gilbert did not show any excitement. He just greeted him as usual: "Hello, Jack, I've been looking forward to the stars and the moon, and finally you are here."

This sentence is said in Mandarin Chinese.

Although Cheng Long is more familiar with Cantonese, he can also speak Mandarin. He was even more surprised to see little Gilbert speak fluent Chinese.

While shaking hands with little Gilbert, he praised: "I didn't expect that you speak Chinese so well and you can also use idioms."

"It's so-so. Compared with real Chinese, my Chinese level is average." Little Gilbert said modestly.

He led Cheng Long to visit the set and introduced the plot: "This is a robot fighting movie. You plays a robot controller from China who leads Master Bao in a boxing match."

Although he had a general understanding of the story of "Iron Armor and Steel Fist", Cheng Long still had doubts at this time.

"Director Landrini..."

"Just call me little Gilbert."

"Oh, little Gilbert, why don't you make a movie about a real-life boxer? I thought I was playing a boxer!" Cheng Long asked.

Little Gilbert smiled mysteriously and said: "For stories about boxers, just watch "Rocky"."

Gilbert Jr. isn't interested in live-action boxing unless he's filming "Million Dollar Baby."

After "Speed" made a box office of 4.05 million U.S. dollars and was released globally, after a long period of preparation, "Iron Fist" officially started filming in a small town in Kansas.

Scarlett Johansson guest-starred as the little girl at the beginning of the film, and had a few lines this time compared to the previous film.

The other two little girls filming together were Mary, the daughter of director of photography Doyle Randolph, and Alice, the youngest daughter of Warner Pictures distribution director Doug Walter.

Although it is not the first shot of the entire film, this scene is the first shot shot by the crew.

As the camera panned, Mary spoke first: "Hey, sir, is that a sneak attacker?"

The camera looks from inside the car to the outside of the car. Scarlett Johansson is standing on the right side of the camera, wearing a cowboy hat and looking cool.

Mary stands in the middle, and Alice stands on the left. The three beauties are beautifully sculpted and look very eye-catching.

Charlie, played by Bruce Willis, is hungover and his head hurts!
  "Uh, yes."

"Can I take a look?"

"Want to see?"

"Yes……"

"Oh, wait, wait." Charlie took a sip of beer, stood up and walked to the sneaker, turned it around, unplugged the charging socket, and picked up the controller.

There is no need to imagine this part, because the robot is real and moving, which also helps the children's performance.

Sure enough, the three little girls were very excited when they saw the sneak attack standing up with that tall and mighty but tattered body.

The shots were shot one by one. Cheng Long wanted to learn from Hollywood's advanced experience. Although he didn't have a role in the film, he also followed the crew and helped on the set.

Little Gilbert acquiesced in Cheng Long's stealing, and no one else hid it.

The real secret of the film is at the Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Studio, which is the core. And this core cannot be entered by Cheng Long.

But having said that, even if he saw the special effects production process, Cheng Long could only sigh that Hollywood film technology is awesome, and it would be the same thing in retrospect.

Hong Kong Island lacks similar talents and the market size is also small, and it cannot support a huge film industry system.

There is still a possibility in the north, but the north has not started the commercialization process of the film market, and it will not be expected in more than ten years.

Cheng Long was curious about how this big guy moved, so he asked Sofia Coppola: "Has your technology developed to this level now? Can robots move?"

Sofia looked at little Gilbert, saw him nodding slightly, and then explained: "No, Jack, we use the control of the hydraulic device to achieve the action of standing up and taking two steps." As she said that, Sofia also brought Cheng Long looked at the hydraulic device designed on the back of the robot, and used manual control to realize the movement of the robot during filming.

Cheng Long suddenly realized it, but he still had a doubt: "How will the robot fighting scene be filmed?"

"Don't worry, Jack, it's up to you to use your imagination. Industrial Light and Magic will be responsible for the robot fighting part," Sophia said.

Of course Cheng Long knew about Industrial Light and Magic, which is a famous company that uses computers to produce special effects.

He had to shake his head. Although Hong Kong Island is known as the Hollywood of the East, the gap between the two Hollywoods is not that big.

In the next scene, Scarlett Johansson has more lines.

"Who is its opponent?"

"Ka!" Little Gilbert shouted, walked up to Scarlett Johansson, knelt down and said, "Scarlett, you're not cool enough, try it with your left hand on your hips."

Scarlett acted as required, and little Gilbert straightened his posture and nodded: "It's much better now, OK, let's start filming again."

"Who is its opponent?"

"Its opponent should be..." Charlie was about to speak, but Alice on the left took out her camera and was about to take a photo, but he stopped her: "Oh, little girl, what do you want to do?"

"Can I take a photo with it?"

"Okay," Charlie said with a money-loving smile, "but you have to pay five dollars first."

Scarlett Johansson was responsible for complaining: "This also costs five dollars? Are you kidding me?"

"No," Charlie tilted his head and said seriously: "I'm going to charge five dollars, so pay it!"

The three little girls withdrew as soon as they heard this: "Forget it, let's go!"

"Hey!" Looking at the three little girls who were about to leave, Charlie coaxed: "Okay, okay, I'll charge you three dollars."

"forget it!"

"The two and a half yuan?"

"Go to hell!"

Looking at the three little girls walking away, Charlie complained: "Another poor place..."

After the filming of this scene, the three little girls had not finished filming, and there were close-ups of them in the audience afterwards.

After this close-up was shot, Sofia Coppola took the three of them out for ice cream while the crew had other scenes to shoot.

In the next scene, the sneaker fights a bull.

The robot can only take two steps at most, but it can't actually shoot a fighting scene.

Besides, if the robots were really made to the level shown in the movie, what other movies would he make? It would be great to just start a robotics company.

Of course, the above is a joke. Movies are a dream and a hobby. No matter how rich you are, you will never give up pursuing your dreams.

So this scene is a typical dry shot scene. During post-production, special effects shots produced by Industrial Light and Magic were added.

However, a few scenes were actually shot, such as the robot's appearance and a real cow.

This cow is the local bullfighting champion, a cow with pure black hair, called Black Lightning.

A few live shots are the scene where Black Lightning uses his horns to tear apart the immobile attacker.

Watching the black lightning tear apart the attacker with its horns, the noise of the impact was inexplicably refreshing.

Perhaps, there is a destructive maniac in everyone's heart.

Of course, if all the shots of the film were released, little Gilbert would be more cheerful.

(End of this chapter)